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Posted: 26 March 2003 05:19 PM   [ Ignore ]
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I nominated this word before the tragic loss of the SAW forum; I thus herewith humbly re-nominate it today.

the word refers to the reflection coefficient of an object.  Earth’s albedo is 0.39, a fact that Vangelis immortalised in his wonderful album of that name.

if we could apply this metric to people, I guess my suggestion in the terrorism thread would be that most of us hover near an albedo of 1.

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Posted: 28 March 2003 04:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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[quote author=ekkis link=board=wordsuggest;num=1048749546;start=0#0 date=03/27/03 at 02:19:06] ... if we could apply this metric to people, I guess my suggestion in the terrorism thread would be that most of us hover near an albedo of 1.

Only when observed through night-vision binoculars….

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Posted: 28 March 2003 04:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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[quote author=KatyBr link=board=wordsuggest;num=1048749546;start=0#2 date=03/28/03 at 13:46:43]I think Ekkis has on speed dial….

heh… I just hate for people to think my nomination is new when I already made it once.  slowly many of my old suggestions are coming to me again, so stayed tuned for more of what you’ve already seen!

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